We would like to invite you to take part in this project. Please take some time to read this information sheet. Ask us if you would like more information. You are free to decide whether or not to take part.
The COVID-19 Pandemic resulted in a sudden and abrupt change to our academic and daily lives due to the lockdown, university closure, social distancing and self-isolation procedures in the UK. Since then, most of us had to deal with many challenges till we were being able to move to Sri Lanka.
It is not clear how long the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to limit our academic activities and regular life styles. Clearly, there are challenges of continuing academic activities such as attending online virtual classes and completing assignments while being under quarantine with limited resources and distractions. However, despite the negativity, we may also experience some positive changes happening in our lives, like new friendships established while undergoing quarantine in Sri Lanka.
We thought it would be interesting to explore these and planned a research study among ourselves. This study aims to understand the impact of COVID-19 on our psychological status and behaviour while being under lockdown, self-isolation in the UK, repatriation and being quarantined here in Sri Lanka.
We are interested to hear from you, because you are an international student who had to repatriate to motherland from the UK, due to COVID-19 pandemic and also because, you are under quarantine procedures at the moment. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, this research paves the way to identify potential psychological and behavioural patterns of youth and young adults like us, that will arise because of the pandemic situations such as COVID-19.
By sharing our experience with each other, we can understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on our lives. It also will give us a chance to be aware of our own behaviour and psychological patterns during this entire process. Possible outcomes from this study will help to identify and address psychological and educational needs, challenges, coping strategies of youth and young adults like us and help the relevant authorities to develop guidelines to manage similar situations in the future and increase resilience.
